TY - JOUR
T1 - Own maps/imagined terrain : the emergence of science fiction in India
AU - BHATTACHARYA, Atanu
AU - HIRADHAR, Preet
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The emergence of science fiction (sf) in Bengal in India is situated within the historical boundaries and intersections that mark a certain conjuncture with the arrival and subsequent entrenchment of colonial-Enlightenment science. This paper traces the specific responses to this form of science, and the appearance of sf as a narrative mode embodying a certain kind of ambivalence, that negotiates a space, an imagined territory, within the framework of colonial science. An analysis of a few early sf writings in Bengal, which outline the narrative trajectories evolving in Indian sf, locates this ambivalence.
AB - The emergence of science fiction (sf) in Bengal in India is situated within the historical boundaries and intersections that mark a certain conjuncture with the arrival and subsequent entrenchment of colonial-Enlightenment science. This paper traces the specific responses to this form of science, and the appearance of sf as a narrative mode embodying a certain kind of ambivalence, that negotiates a space, an imagined territory, within the framework of colonial science. An analysis of a few early sf writings in Bengal, which outline the narrative trajectories evolving in Indian sf, locates this ambivalence.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84928557578&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3828/extr.2014.16
DO - 10.3828/extr.2014.16
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 0014-5483
VL - 55
SP - 277
EP - 297
JO - Extrapolation
JF - Extrapolation
IS - 3
ER -